Word: violine
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...even without one he has to bend like a melon rind to get level with his men. When he spreads his arms an entire orchestra seems to fall under the shadow of his wings. For a lush string passage one arm will suddenly take the form of a violin while he plays on it with the other. He stands erect for staccato effects, hunches his head forward and fairly plucks the quick, short notes from out the instruments. He takes his crescendoes with hair and coat tails flying...
...which cast a bloody light on certain early Mormon doings. In filming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thriller, Fox was evidently so concerned about injuring Mormon feelings that an entirely new and different story is told. Only the old rooms in Baker Street, the pipe, tweed cap and violin of sagacious Sherlock Holmes remain unaltered. New film Holmes is Reginald Owen, a twangy-voiced high comedian who gave theatregoers much pleasure in The Play's the Thing and Petticoat Influence...
...would be incorrect. Garret Wellesley, Earl of Mornington and father of the first Wellington, had tastes which were singular indeed in the begetter of an Iron Duke. It is known to relatively few Americans, save such insatiable antiquaries as myself, that the Earl of Mornington was addicted to playing violin sonatas while seated in an armchair upholstered with orchid-colored velvet, composed numerous four-voiced glees, two of which were named respectively "Gently Hear Me, Charming Maiden" and "Come, Fairest Nymph...
...this year was far beyond the scope of his imagination. Music. Father Brahms hoped, would earn his son a living. He was set to playing the piano almost as soon as he could toddle. Before he reached his teens he could tootle on a horn, play passably on the violin and 'cello. But to his father's despair he would go on scribbling music when he should have been practicing his scales and learning the dance tunes which would earn him a thaler or two and all the supper he could...
...have been written. The D Minor Concerto failed at its first hearing, partly because Brahms played the piano part himself more vigorously than accurately. It took Clara Schumann, who played it the length & breadth of Europe, to make it known for what it was worth. The premiere of the Violin Concerto was coolly received. It was lacking in fireworks and Brahms, who conducted it, supplied a diversion by going on stage with his suspenders unfastened. In Boston where the recent Brahms concerts were sold out to the doors and Beacon Hill ladies stamped their feet in approval. Critic Philip Hale...